Replacing medical staff with robots is no longer a myth.
In the surgical operation, the third generation of "tianji" robot of tianzhihong can assist the doctor to carry out limb, pelvic fracture and spinal full segment surgery, so that the patient's soft tissue injury is smaller, less bleeding, faster recovery, and reduce the doctor's fatigue. Gastroscopy, which has scared most people, can now be done quickly by swallowing a capsule, turning it into a robot in the stomach and performing a spiral scan that transmits images in real time to a doctor's computer. In the outpatient department of the hospital, the "xiao yi" of iflytek is "on duty" in nearly 100 hospitals across the country, providing patients with various functions such as appointment registration, inquiry service, intelligent guidance, path guidance, report inquiry, etc., to share the guidance work for the hospital. Under the logistics scene in the hospital, tiami developed the first logistics robot that can enter the operating room in China, which not only helps doctors deliver materials, but also realizes the refined management of logistics in the hospital. In the dispensing room, there is also a robot to automatically complete the dispensing liquid configuration, so that medical staff from contact with the drug, to avoid liquid contamination and personnel injury.
Medical robot, a magical species originally only existed in science fiction and science fiction movies, is gradually penetrating into our lives and gradually becoming a new hot spot for entrepreneurship and investment. According to incomplete statistics, from 2014 to 2017, at least 100 medical robot startups have appeared in China, and more than 40 have publicly disclosed financing. In addition, many listed companies have also expanded their medical robot business in recent years, such as boshi, jinming jingji, keyuan, fosun pharmaceutical, dima and midea group. There are even some industrial robotics companies (uai) or medical device companies (pelt) that have extended their medical robotics businesses.
Behind the layout of many enterprises is the huge market potential of medical robots. According to the latest report by Grand View Research, the global medical robot (device) market was $8.737 billion in 2014, and will reach $17.9 billion in 2020, with an average annual growth rate of 12.7%. And this is a high value-added category, with auxiliary equipment and consumables, the future will form a trillion industrial chain. ISRG, the most well-known company in this field, also achieved $3.1 billion in revenue in 2017 with "Da Vinci robot", easily occupying half of the current medical robot market and injecting more confidence into the development of the industry.
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